2. Big Night (1996) takes place on one special night as two brothers, Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci), try to save their Italian restaurant.Handout
/ The Samuel Goldwyn Company

3. Chocolat (2000) is a romance starring Juliette Binoche (Vianne Rocher) and Johnny Depp (Roux), which was based on Joanne Harris' novel by the same name. It tells the story of a young mother, Binoche, who moves to a French village and opens a chocolaterie. It's not long before her chocolate begins to change lives.Handout
/ Miramax

4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) is a romantic crime drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway, and starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Alan Howard. A bored wife (Mirren) considers an affair with a regular patron of her husband's restaurant. The film is visually stunning and you can't miss the Jean Paul Gaultier-designed costumes.Handout
/ Vendex

5. Delicatessen (1991) is a black comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, and starring Dominique Pinon (Louison) and Karin Viard (Mademoiselle Plusse). The setting is post-apocalyptic France where food is in short supply.Handout
/ Miramax Films

6. Director Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995, and inspired the 2001 remake Tortilla Soup. It tells the story of a widowed Taiwanese chef who lives with his three adult daughters.Handout
/ Samuel Goldwyn Co.

7. I Am Love (2009) is an Italian drama starring Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi, the wife of a powerful Milanese textile manufacturer. Food plays a central role as Recchi becomes involved with the young and talented chef Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini).Handout
/ First Sun

8. Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is set in 1962 Hong Kong. Tony Leung (Chow Mo-wan) and Maggie Cheung (Su Li-zhen) star as neighbours who share everything from a love of noodle houses and martial arts, to suspected spousal infidelity.Handout
/ USA Films

9. Julie & Julia (2009) is director Nora Ephron's depiction of Julia Child (Meryl Streep) in the early years of her culinary career contrasted with Julie Powell (Amy Adams) as she blogs her attempt to cook every recipe in Child's cookbook in a single year.Jonathan Wenk
/ Columbia Pictures

10. Like Water for Chocolate (1992) was based on the novel of the same name by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. It's a love story that takes place during the Mexican Revolution. Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is unable to marry the love of her life, Pedro (Marco Leonardi) and pours her emotions into the food she cooks.Handout
/ Miramax Lionsgate

11. Mostly Martha (2001) is a German romantic comedy written and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck, which explores the life of a workaholic chef (Martina Gedeck) when she is faced with major life changes that are beyond her control.Sandra Nettelbeck
/ Paramount Vantage

12. Ratatouille (2007) is an animated film that tells the tale of Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt), a young rat from the French countryside, who dreams of becoming a chef in Paris. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2007.Handout
/ Pixar

13. Sideways (2004), based on Rex Pickett's novel of the same name, follows two friends, Miles (Paul Giamatti) and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), on a week-long road trip through California's wine country.Handout
/ Fox Searchlight

14. Soul Food (1997) features an ensemble cast, starring Vanessa Williams (Teri), Vivica A. Fox (Maxine) and Michael Beach (Miles). When matriarch Mother Joe (Irma P. Hall) is hospitalized, she is unable to bring her family together around the Sunday dinner table, and infighting threatens to tear the family apart. Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), Mother Joe's grandson, cooks up a plan to get the family back to the table.Handout
/ 20th Century Fox

15. Director Juzo Itami's Tampopo (1985) is the original 'noodle western.' Nobuko Miyamoto stars as Tampopo, a female chef who runs a noodle bar in downtown Tokyo. Two truck drivers, Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and his sidekick Gun (Ken Watanabe), ride into town and Goro endeavours to help Tampopo set up the best noodle bar in the business.Handout
/ Itami Productions

16. Tortilla Soup (2001) is an American remake of Ang Lee's 2004 Eat Drink Man Woman. Directed by Maria Ripoll, the film tells the tale of a Mexican-American master chef and father, and his three adult daughters.Handout
/ The Samuel Goldwyn Company

17. Vatel (2000) is Roland Joffé biographical drama based on the life of 17th-century French chef François Vatel, starring Gérard Depardieu (Vatel) and Uma Thurman (Anne de Montausier).Handout
/ Miramax

18. Actress Penélope Cruz (Raimunda) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver (2006). The film explores dark themes such as personal tragedy and murder, but Cruz's Raimunda uses her culinary talent to turn her life around.Handout
/ Columbia/Tristar Vid